Would anyone perhaps know how I might display a small snippet of the most recent post in a forum under that forum's title on the front page? So, my front page might look like:
My Forum
Here is a bit of text from the most recent post in this forum
Another of my Forums
And here is some text from this forum's most recent post
Etc, etc.
How about this as a starting point?
http://bbpress.org/forums/topic/excerpts?replies=14#post-12656
That's a great start, Chris - however it basically drops an entire list of recents with excerpts, and I was hoping to have the excerpt for each group listed after that group.
I'm quite the novice when it comes to PHP, but perhaps I can figure out how to mod this.
So here's what I found, though I wasn't personally able to get it to work myself, I'm almost positive that someone with a bit more PHP knowledge would have been able to:
This plugin: http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/forum-last-poster/#post-1538
+ _ck_'s advice in this post: http://bbpress.org/plugins/topic/forum-last-poster/#post-1546
He details how, using substr, you can truncate the amount of words being pulled from the any piece of content. Theoretically you could use:
post_text(forum_last_topic_id());
But with the truncation method he mentions. I, unfortunately, just don't know how. :(
Now that you mention it, I think search returns just a snippet of results, not the full post. Maybe look at how that's done?
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